[Admin] Agenda for RIF telecon 14 October

AGENDA Teleconference
W3C Rules Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
14 October 2008

North America and Europe are in the summer time:
1500 UTC, 0800 (West US) 1100 (East US) 1600 (London) 1700 (Paris)

Duration: *90 min*

*Agenda summary*
1. Admin (5 mn)
*PROPOSED:* accept minutes of telecon October 7 [1]
*PROPOSED:* accept minutes of F2F11 [2] [3]
2. Liaison (5 mn)
3. Public comments [4] (5 mn)
4. Action review [5] [6] (5 mn)
5. Review action 577 (weak VS strong safety) [7] [8] (10 mn)
6. Test Cases [9] [10] (30 mn)
*PROPOSED:* Approve some test cases (to be determined during the telecon)
7. PRD/BLD/FLD: Frames VS objects [11] [12] (30 mn)
8. AOB

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Oct/att-0017/2008-10-07-minutes.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/meeting/2008-09-26
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/meeting/2008-09-27
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-comments/
[5] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/open
[6] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/pendingreview
[7] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/577
[8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Sep/0178.html
[9] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/TCS
[10] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/Category:Test_Case
[11] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Aug/0030.html and following thread
[12] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Oct/0031.html

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*Detailed agenda*

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Conference code: 74394# ('RIFWG')
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*PLEASE POST REGRETS* TO [http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/TeleconRegrets]

Chair: Christian de Sainte Marie
Scribe: Stuart Taylor
See Scribes List [http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/ScribesList]

Please note that RIF WG telecons are for attendance only by Working
Group Participants and guests invited by the chairs.

1. ADMIN (5 min)

- Roll call (please read before telecon the following)
RIF Regrets Policy:
[http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/RegretsPolicy]
Using Zakim:
[http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/UsingZakim]
Telecon Etiquette:
[http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/TeleconEtiquette]
Action/Issues Tracker:
[http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/]

- Agenda amendments

PROPOSED: accept minutes of telecon October 7 [1]

PROPOSED: accept minutes of F2F11 [2] [3]

2. Liaison (5 min)

- Review active liaisons:
PRR (OMG) - Paul Vincent
OWL (W3C) - Sandro Hawke
HCLS (W3C IG) - Adrian Paschke

3. Public comments (5 mn)

- Status of responses to public comments [4]

4. Action review (5 mn)

- Review actions due [5] and pending review [6]

5. Review action 577 (Write down the definitions of strict and weak safety of a ruleset) [7] (10 mn)

- Review Axel's action (see also Axel's email [8] and following thread)

6. Test Cases [9] [10] (30 mn)

PROPOSED: Approve some test cases (to be determined during the telecon)

7. Frames (in BLD/FLD) VS objects (in PRD) [11] [12] (30 mn)

- Gary raised [11] the issue of the difference in te semantics of frames, as adopted in BLD and FLD, and the semantics of objects, as used in many PR systems (essentially: properties in frames are multi-valued and attributes in objects are single-valued). There have been suggestions, recently (e.g. [12]) that the cost of using frames to represent objects in PRD might overweight the benefits, which is a clear threat to the unity of RIF and the interoperability between different branches.

- The objectives of the discussion are to clarify, in particular:
 * what is the actual impact of that difference?
 * to what degree PRD and BLD/FLD can use different semantics, and the interoperability still be preserved (by some kind of semantic or syntactic trick)?
 * if not, what would be the impact of changing the semantics of frames in BLD/FLD to an object-like one (regardless of the impact on LC)?

8. AOB
- Next meeting: 21 October 2008 (pick scribe!)

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